Door-hanger



(No Model.)

B. T. PRINDLE & F. O. BAIRD.

DOOR HANGER.

No. 350,639. Patented Oct. 12, 1886.

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WITNESSES qmmi/rmz/ NITED STATES PATENT ries,

EDIVARD T. PRINDLE AND FREDERICK C. BAIRD, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

DOOR- HANGER.

QPECIEXCATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,639, dated October 12, 1886. Application tiled June 12, [856. Serial No. 204,996. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD T. PRINDLE and FREDERICK O. BAIRD, of Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Hangers; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to further improvements upon the door-hangers for dwellings, &c., patented to Edward T. Prindle on July 1, 1884, numbered, respectively, 301,888 and 301,389.

In our present invention we adopt and re tain many of the features found in those patents; but we have devised a new and very efficiont construction for effecting the vertical adjustment of the hangers, and which has many advantages as to simplicity of manufacture and certainty and precision of action, and but little, if any, liability to get out of order.

Figure 1 shows in elevation, and Fig. 2 in end view, a housedoor hangerillustrating our invention, a portion onlyof the top of the sliding door being shown, our hanger being of that class which does not require any mortise to be made in the top of the door to receive the plate or the lower part of the yoke.

A is the plate, to be applied to the doortop by means of ordinary screws, as shown, and is made, preferably, of malleable or gray iron, and with a high standard, I), at or near one end, and in the top of which standard is a tubularand inclined socket or bearing, c,adapted to receive the cylindrical end of an adj usting-screw rod, D, as will presently be more fully stated. At or near the other endof this plate. and in close proximity to its upper surface, is another tubular and inclined socket or bearing, a, the bores of both these bearings c and 6 being in a line with each other, so that the straight inclined adj usting-rod D may have its support and bearing in, both these tubular sockets. The rod D extends from the high bearing, 0, through the low bearing, 0, and through one end of the plate, so that its lower end may reach to the vertical edge f of the door, to be accessible for a screwdriver, when adjustment is needed; and near its higher end it is threaded for a short distance, as shownat g. The plate A is also provided with the usual buffer-standard, h.

The yoke I is peculiarly made, its under part, 7', and which is located and works above the plate A, being inclined and provided with two tubular sockets, is Z, through which the rod D is passed, the upper one, 7;, of which is internally threaded to fit the threaded part 9 of the rod. That portion, m, ofthe under part,

j, which is above the socket k is so shaped as to clear the top of the standard bforany movements of the yoke when adjusting the door by means of the screw-rod D.

The rider-bar N, the connected pair of running wheels 0, their double track or rails P P, and the vertical guideroller Q, need not be de scribed, as they are substantially like those in the beforementioned patents.

It will be now observed, besides the manifest cheapness, simplicity, and easy adjustment of the hanger, that the same rod, D, embodies within itself the functions both of a guide-rod and 01' an adjusting-screw; that it supports the hanger at both its ends; that the turning of this screw-rod positively, simulta- 8o ueously, and equally adjusts both ends alike; that there is no labor or expense of mortisiug and consequently of weakening the top of the door to receive the plate or to receive any pr0- jections on the yoke; that the adjustment is as nearly perfect and true as seems possible; that most of the machine-work required is done by drilling, and the screw-rod is preferably of gun-screw wire, which is now readily obtainable in the stores and is notoriously 9o true, and the yoke is held on and movable by the same straight true guide-rod, which is steadily supported at both its extremities, and that there is no opportunity for derangement or imperfect working. The holes for the rod 5 being drilled for the purpose in the parts I), e, and Z, the rod makes a neat close fit therein. The plate, rod, and yoke are all that are needed for the adj ust-ment, thus reducing toa very few pieces. I o

In our construct-ion we avoid certain imporfections necessarily incident to hangers in which the working parts are molded, and also the unequal expansion and contraction due to all cast metal, because the working parts of our hanger are allof machine-work and true, being drilled; and one set or tenthousand can be made, each a duplicate of all of the others, so that any one ofthe parts will always exactly and truly fit its other part and work aceurately without tilting or shaking or having any lost motion, thus overcoming aserious difficulty heretofore apparently insurmountable. y

' We claim- 1. lhe top plate as made with the high'upright, I), atone end,with the low upright, 6, near its other end, and with an opening through this end, such uprights having inclined tubular hearings in line with each other and with such opening, as and for the pnrp oses described. 2. A yoke for door-hangers having below its rider-bar the two inclincd tubular sockets 76 Z, one near each of its ends, one of them be ing internally threaded, and both of them being in the same inclined line, as set forth.

3. In combination with the top plate having the two inclined tubular sockets c e, as set forth, the yoke having the two inclined tubu- 25 lar sockets k 1, one of which is threaded, the yoke being adapted to be placedwith its said two sockets between the bearings c e, and to be connected to and in line therewith, and means for connecting and adjusting the plate and yoke relatively to each other, all substantially as set forth. I

4. In combination, the top plate, A,having the high and low uprights with inclined tubular bearings, as described, and with an opening at one end therein,a yoke having astraight rider-bar, N, and provided withthe two inclined tubular sockets is Z, adapted to. occupy the open space between the uprights I) and e, and the adj usting-rod D, provided with a threaded portion, 9, adapted for the interior thread in socket k, said rod serving to hold and adjust the yoke, as set forth.

EDWVARD T. PRINDLE. FREDERICK O. BAIRD. Witnesses:

M. O. SOUTHWORTH, V. E. PRINDLE. 

